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"ref": "2003, Michael T. Leibig, Mike Leibig Traveling in Disguise",
"text": "I sink because I cannot swim, undertowed to the Centre, abandoning all remembrance of the surface toward the cloud of unknowing, without choice I'm pulled.",
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"word": "退波"
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"sense": "flow of water",
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"word": "aaltojen imu"
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"word": "paluuvirtaus"
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"word": "courant de retour"
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"sense": "flow of water",
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"word": "hinausziehende Strömung"
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"sense": "flow of water",
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"word": "Gegenströmung"
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"code": "el",
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"sense": "flow of water",
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"word": "αντιμάμαλο"
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"word": "risacca"
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